Jude Law (David Jude Heyworth Law) Quotes
My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
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As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
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Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no 'good guns'. There are no 'bad guns'. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody - except bad people.
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A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.
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My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
